Post-Impressionism: Individual paths to construction and expression -- Symbolism and other subjectivist tendencies: Form and the evocation of feeling -- Fauvism and Expressionism: The creative -- Cubism: Form as expression -- Futurism: Dynamism as the expression of the modern world -- Neo-Plasticism and Constructivism: Abstract and Nonobjective art -- Dada, Surrealism and Scuola Metafisica: The irrational and the dream -- Art and politics: The artist and the social order -- Contemporary art: The autonomy of the work of art